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Western Szech'uan: Min River valley, near Mao-chou, alt. 300- 

 1600 m., July 1908 (No. 3508; tree 13-20 m. tall, girth 1.6-2.5 m., 

 flowers white); " Hung-pe-t'ang," A. von Rosihorn (No. 806); without 

 precise locality, July 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 4086), E. Faber (No. 

 202). Fokien: Dunn's Exped., April to June 1905 (Hongkong 

 Herb. No. 2892). Chekiang: Ningpo, 1908, D. Macgregor. 



Pictures of this tree will be found under Nos. 83, 307, 633 of the collection of 

 Wilson's photographs and also in his Vegetation of Western China, Nos. 2S6, 287. 

 An account of this tree in relation to breeding the white-wax insect (Coccus pela 

 Westwood), will be found in Wilson's A Naturalist in Western China, II. 100 (1913). 



Ligustrum compactum Hooker f . & Thomson apud Brandis, For. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. 310 (1874); Ind. Trees, 447 (1908). — Decaisne in Fl. des 

 Sevres, XXII. 10 (1877); in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, II. 23 

 (1879). — Clarke in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. III. 616 (1882). — Dippel, 

 Handb. Lauhholzk. I. 127, fig. 77 (1889). — Kanjalil, Forest Fl. 230 

 (1901). — Schneider, III. Handb. Lauhholzk. II. 797, fig. 500 p. (1911). 



Olea compacta Wallich, Cat. No. 2819 (nomen nudum) (1828). — De CandoUe, 



Prodr. VIII. 287 (1844). 

 Ligustrum oblong if olium Hort. Panorm. ex Decaisne in Fl. des Serves, XXII. 



10 (pro synon.) (1877). 

 Ligustrum longif olium Carriere ex Decaisne, 1. c. (pro synon.) (1877). 

 Ligustrum lancifolium Carriere ex Decaisne, 1. c. (pro synon.) (1877). 

 Ligustrum Simonii Carriere ex Decaisne (pro synon.) (1877). 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, roadsides, alt. 300-1000 m., 

 July and October 1907 (No. 3505, in part; small tree, 3-7 m. tall, 

 flowers white, fruit blue-black); same locality; alt. 1300 m.. May 7, 

 1907 (No. 3509, branch with only young leaves; tree 8 m. tall, girth 

 1.6 m.); Patung Hsien, roadsides, alt. 600 m., October 1907 (No. 

 3505, in part; small tree 3-7 m. tall, fruit black); without precise lo- 

 cality, June 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 1193). Yunnan: Mengtsze, 

 eastern mountains, alt. 2000 m., A. Henry (No. 9968; tree 10 m. tall). 



This species closely resembles L. lucidum Alton, but is easily distinguished by 

 its thinner deciduous leaves, usually narrower and more cuneate at the base, dull, 

 not glossy above, with closer more distinct veins, and by its less strongly lenti- 

 cellate branchlets. 



Ligustrum thibeticum Decaisne in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, s6t. 2, 

 II. 21 (1879). 



Western Szech'uan: Mupin, thickets, alt. 1600 m., June 1908 

 (No. 3500, bush 2-3 m. tall, flowers white). 



Although Wilson's specimen has the inflorescence and branchlets slightly puberu- 

 lous and Decaisne places his species among the group " Frutices glaberrimi " it 



